Which of the following most logically completes the passage?

According to the last pre-election poll in Whippleton, most voters believe that the three problems government needs to address, in order of importance, are pollution, crime, and unemployment. Yet in the election, candidates from parties perceived as strongly against pollution were defeated, while those elected were all from parties with a history of opposing legislation designed to reduce pollution. These results should not be taken to indicate that the poll was inaccurate, however, since __________.

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some voters in Whippleton do not believe that pollution needs to be reduced

every candidate who was defeated had a strong antipollution record

there were no issues other than crime, unemployment, and pollution on which the candidates had significant differences of opinion

all the candidates who were elected were perceived as being stronger against both crime and unemployment than the candidates who were defeated

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many of the people who voted in the election refused to participate in the poll

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What this question tests

Whether you can complete the last sentence of an argument in a way that is logically consistent with it.

Choosing an option that sounds plausible but contradicts the argument or introduces new information.